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Fortunately wind power is almost exactly anticyclic to solar in Germany, so cumulated they produce a nearly flat curve over the seasons: https://upload.wikimedi
by atwrk 3y ago
Fortunately wind power is almost exactly anticyclic to solar in Germany, so cumulated they produce a nearly flat curve over the seasons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Wind-power-germany-1.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Wind-pow...
- huijzer 3y agoDo you have more information about that? If you average the power over a month, then yes it might be true in the plot, but I suspect it's less smooth in real-time.
- atwrk 3y agoHere's a great graph with finer than hourly data: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/power_generation/24.08.2023/07.09.2023/today/ https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric... It doesn't average out on an intraday basis, but neither does consumption, which has its peaks during the day. I know someone working at an energy provider heavy on renewables, there they use gas turbines (=biomass) for compensating heavy fluctuations, because those are online in a few minutes.